Definition of Foe

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Definition of Foe

Foe

One who entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge, or malice, against another; an enemy.

An enemy in war; a hostile army.

One who opposes on principle; an opponent; an adversary; an ill-wisher; as, a foe to religion.

To treat as an enemy.

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Foe Quotations

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Buddha

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
John F. Kennedy

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
William Shakespeare

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Henry David Thoreau

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
Edgar Allan Poe

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
Ernest Hemingway

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
William Blake

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
Oswald Chambers

He makes no friends who never made a foe.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Foe Translations

foe in German is Feind
foe in Latin is inimicus
foe in Swedish is fiende

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